Talk:Sledgehammer

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The first and initial paragraph (and the image) of this article is confusing sledgehammers with mallets. A mallet is a short-handled tool with a big head designed to put force over a wide area. A sledgehammer is a long-handled two-handed tool with a heavy head for driving wedges and the like. The picture is of what appears to be a rubber mallet. -- Cyrius|✎ 20:55, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I have revised the offending paragraph and moved the image to Mallet. --Slowking Man 22:03, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)

Why is it called a sledgehammer? Anything to do with sledges? --66.46.53.84

It comes from the word sledge, a large, two-handed blacksmith's hammer. That in turn comes from a variety of Germanic words for to strike. --Adamrush 11:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

"sledge" is an old word for sleigh - I wonder if this old word is related to the modern name for this type of hammer...? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.10.124.224 (talk) 03:43, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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The joke has no place in this article--especially not as almost half of the article. Not even a link to the Internet Sledgehammer Joke Archive would. Also, the 1980's tv show about Sledge Hammer is mentioned in the disambiguation page and doesn't need to be in the main article. --Adamrush 01:29, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maul

Should the information for the maul be moved to the maul page now? --Вlazzeee 14:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)